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COCI has surpassed 700M citations
We are excited to share that COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations, was on 12 May 2020 extended with more than 47 million additional citations, and has reached a total number of more than 702 million DOI-to-DOI citation links between more than 58 million bibliographic entities. Continue reading
OpenCitations described
OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data. We at OpenCitations are proud to announce the publication, in the first issue of Quantitative Science Studies, of a canonical paper in … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographic references, Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Data publication, open access, Open Citation Identifiers, Open Citations, Open scholarship, Open Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Bibliometrics, citation data, COCI, CrossRef, linked data, OCDM, Open Citation Corpus, OpenCitations, QSS, Scientometrics, SCOSS, spar
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The first issue of Quantitative Science Studies
The memorable date 20/02/2020 saw the publication by MIT Press of the first issue of Volume One of a new journal, Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official open access journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). QSS’s … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographic references, open access, Open Citations, Open scholarship
Tagged APC, Bibliometrics, citation data, Elsevier, I4OC, Informetrics, ISSI, Journal flip, QSS, Scientometrics
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OpenCitations and the Initiative for Open Citations: A Clarification
Some folk are confused, but OpenCitations and the Initiative for Open Citations, despite the similarity of their names, are two distinct organizations. OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net) is an open scholarly infrastructure organization directed by Silvio Peroni and myself, and its primary purpose … Continue reading
Oxford University Press opens its references!
Good news! Today, on January 16th 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP) announced its participation in the Initiative for Open Citations, and requested Crossref to turn on reference sharing for all OUP deposited references from more than half a million publications. … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographic references, open access, Open Citations, Open scholarship
Tagged bibliography, citation data, CrossRef, I4OC, open access, references
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Funders should mandate open citations
On 9th January 2018, I published a World View article in Nature entitled Funders should mandate open citations [1], in which I argue that access to open references from scholarly publications is so important that, when encouragements from organisations such as the … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographic references, open access, Open Citations, Open scholarship
Tagged funder mandate, I4OC, open reference lists
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Barriers to comprehensive reference availability
Two significant barriers prevent comprehensive reference availability through Crossref. The first barrier First, two-thirds of Crossref’s publisher-members, in particular the smaller ones, do not submit references along with the other details of their publications. Many of these published works are of … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographic references, Data publication, open access, Open Citations, Open scholarship
Tagged arXiv, CrossRef, Dryad
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The new Crossref reference distribution policy
Since 1st January 2018, Crossref has had a new reference distribution policy, described at https://www.crossref.org/reference-distribution/. There are three possible options for setting the reference distribution preference from which a publisher can choose, these being ‘Closed’, ‘Limited’ and ‘Open”. If the … Continue reading
Openness of non-Elsevier references
For completeness, this post, also based on analyses performed by Daniel Ecer of eLife (d.ecer@elifesciences.org) on data he downloaded from Crossref in September 2017 (Ecer, 2017), complements the two preceding posts, and details the openness of references from scholarly publishers other … Continue reading
Elsevier references dominate those that are not open at Crossref
Yesterday (November 23rd 2017) I was working with Daniel Ecer of eLife (d.ecer@elifesciences.org) to dig some hard facts out of the analyses he undertook on data he downloaded from Crossref in September 2017 (Ecer, 2017). Because of its dominant position in … Continue reading
